That Was a Real Good Thing You Done, George.

[TomInTib]

from HuffPo, this is quite good.

At first when I heard that the Republicans were finally standing up to Bush, I was thrilled. That was before Tony, the irritable handyman, a guy who I hired to build me some bookshelves, detailed for me a different way to look at it.

But first let me backtrack for a second. Having come to political consciousness during the Nixon/Johnson/Ford debacle, I have never really gotten over how the things I initially didn't believe about the secret workings of the U.S. government all turned out to be true.

Come on; Enemies lists? Wiretapping the phones of protesters? CIA assassins? Yeah, right.

Once I made that leap, I have never been able to completely discount bizarre theories. And I worked in talk radio for a while so I have heard some very creative ones. Still, when people send me little movies to download about how the Bush administration was behind 9/11, while the sensible part of me files this with the rantings of the troglodytes who think we staged the moon landing, a more paranoid part of me puts the details on hold for reviewing at a later date. A wry little voice asks me why we had all those red and orange alerts right around the time of the election, and not since?

The rest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/merrill-markoe/that-was-a-real-good-thin_b_17043.html?view=print

[Mythsaje]

1. Scary concept...

and the only possible reply as far as I'm concerned is "screw that."

[Jack Rabbit]

2. I didn't see that episode of The Twilight Zone

Was it by any chance based on a story I once read by Harlan Ellison? If so, as I recall, it ends with Anthony turning himself into a spider and being crushed under the shoe of a little girl he is trying to terrorize.

Got your heaviest shoes on, my fellow Americans?

[MaineYooper]

5. no- it's from a story by Jerome Bixby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Good_Life/

and unfortunately, at the end, it just continues with the kid in charge of everything, cowing everyone around him.

[Vincardog]

3. Repeat after me "You Fucked up real good W. Now go to jail do not pass

go do not collect $200. OR better yet take the damn black pill and put us out of your misery.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Borrowing another story

The sad thing is, even if he ever admits he's wrong and sorry (most unlikely event ever), we're still going to be chin deep in "Oobleck" for a very long time.